The Ghost And Mrs Muir 1947 Original Score - Bernard Herrmann. Rex Harrison
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THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR
ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE
MUSIC CONDUCTED BY BERNARD HERRMANN; CONDUCTED BY ELMER BERNSTEIN
ON VARESE SARABANDE LABEL ref 704.340, MANUFACTURED IN THE USA, 1975
UNPLAYED IN NEAR-MINT CONDITION. Stored in a smoke-free enviroment removed from sunlight. Please email with any questions and thanks for looking
Arguably the best soundtrack that Bernard Herrmann ever composed, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was his most expressive body of dramatic music, not really a surprise since a portion of its material was "stolen" by Herrmann from his own contemporary opera Wuthering Heights. The thematic material displays a level of elegance and delicacy that put it head and shoulders above the standard for film scores of its era, and made it one of the crowning achievements of film music composition in Hollywood. This recording, originally made by Elmer Bernstein and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for his Film Music Society, was considered a landmark in its time for recreating -- with extraordinary faithfulness -- the main body of the original 1947 score in all of its nuances. It holds up extremely well even a quarter century later.
Tracklist?
1 Prelude/Local Train/The Sea 2 The Ghost/The Storm/The Apparition 3 The Lights/Bedtime 4 Poetry 5 Lucia/Dictation/Boyhood's End/Pastoral 6 Nocturne 7 London/The Reading/Local Train 8 The Spring Sea 9 Romance/Love/Farewell 10 The Home/Sorrow 11 The Passing Years/The Late Sea 12 Foreverprice rating
